Thanks, pcslife, for your post here.
It was synchronous reading for me on three counts.
One, an older woman friend recently was trying to tell me that we need to eat more mushrooms in our diet, be sure to buy them on sale in the grocery store.
I've lived in Asia, have experience with the merits of
traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese herbal medicines, etc., thus I tried to explain to my elder friend that I
thinkwhatever she'd read must've indicated a particular traditional
medicinal mushroom, not ordinary white button mushrooms in the grocery.
Two, another atbi'd woman friend who's really an avid researcher was saying 2 years ago, "Mushrooms! Seriously! The new research for our brains, says they can be magic medicine for our ailing brain!" I thought she was joking. I said, "No thanks to that magic, uh-uh, not for me! I feel so 'altered' already as it is -- I don't think I'd survive anything so seriously mind-altering!!"
Now here in these posts, I'm reading about that of which she spoke. Thank you.
Third, I'd missed in reading this your earlier post from September, re: the potential merit of
meditation to cultivate a similar effect, i.e. by a sort of "dampening of brain activity", e.g. slowing our rapid-firing mind, onslaughted with
"the flood of potentially overwhelming sights, sounds and sensations" [Huxley], to basically alleviate suffering.
Wow. Can't thank you enough for this post. As I say, it's highly synchronous for me at this time. Another confirmation that I'm onto a best hope for me, i.e.
intensive vipassana meditation training,*free* to anyone . And vipassana meditation
is the basis for U.Mass.School of Medicine
Mindfulness Based Stress Reductionprogram (
MBSR), which is currently being taught in some Veterans Admin Med Centers' trauma/PTSD/MTBI depts.
Yay for that!
And yay again for reposting this pcslife. Gives me hope.
Theta
Quote:
Originally Posted by pcslife
I posted this before. Hope this drug comes out soon.
Magic Mushrooms Expand the Mind By Dampening Brain Activity:
new brain-scan study helps explain how psilocybin (active ingredient in magic mushroom) works — and why it holds promise as a treatment for depression, addiction and post-traumatic stress.
What caught my attention is :
In order to keep us focused on survival, Huxley claimed, the brain must act as a “reducing valve” on the flood of potentially overwhelming sights, sounds and sensations. What remains, Huxley wrote, is a “measly trickle of the kind of consciousness” necessary to “help us to stay alive.” If this drug comes out I believe it can help PCS folks in many ways.
http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/2...rain-activity/
With Meditation you can achieve that state but with concussed/injured brain it can be very difficult." 
Cheers! |